He's come here to laugh at you. Explanation Comes from this screencap of Char saying as much. It can occasionally be found around the internet, entirely out-of-context, as a reaction image. It's since expanded to other characters from other franchises entirely, all making sure to wear some form of sunglasses.

"Ange, she is A CAGALLI." Explanation The anime Cross Ange, also from Sunrise and with Mitsuo Fukuda (Gundam Seed and Gundam Seed Destiny's Director) as its Creative producer, is full of Gundam references, and this example is just the tip of the iceberg.

The Char Custom meme mutates three times faster than any other meme on this page.Explanation In the original series, Char's custom red Zaku moves three times faster than a standard Zaku. The color is the only externally obvious difference between Char's Zaku and the regular ones. Thus creating one of Gundam's most enduring memes, that anything red is three times faster.

Blatantly referenced in Gundam 00, where the Gundams have a "Trans-Am" mode that makes them three times faster. Guess what color they change to when it's activated.

When he reappears in Alpha 3; he's 2 years older than when we last saw him, after the major Evangelion events. He's obviously grown a pair by simply fighting alongside the biggest badasses and hot-blooded Super Robot heroes ever. To the point that he's the one who calls out Kira Yamato for being to wangsty. That's gotta hurt, being told to man up by Shinji freaking Ikari.

The popularity of this meme is actually pretty bizarre, since, as anyone who's seen the episode could tell you, it didn't work. The first thing Amuro Ray did after getting his Bright Slap was to abandon ship and try to leave them to die, until his conscience got the better of him.

If anything, the REVERSE Bright Slap worked. Pulled by Kamille Bidan in Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam, who dodged the Bright Slap and returned one.

Acguy, with its big head, stumpy limbs and plump body, has acquired quite a following for being adorable. As the meme goes, "Acguy is love".

This first came up in Tony Takezaki's Gundam manga, where everyone in Zeon seemed to love the Acguy. A follow up was done in Gundam-san, then the fandom at large caught on.

This has more or less become an official Ascended Meme as of Model Suit Gunpla Builders Beginning G, where one of the main characters pilots a "Beargguy", an Acguy with a teddy bear-like head. Before you dismiss it as a simple coincidence, Beargguy is the only main mech on the show that isn't a Zaku or a Gundam.

The four Petitgguy in the second ending were also made into their respective Petitguy kits.

With the months following the series and the release of Island Wars, the sheer amount of Beargguy and Petitgguy variants has become unbearable. Not to mention that the purple Petitgguy is plot-relevant.

In Japan, Beargguy is subject to a meme all its own: depicting him as Kuma, the 2chan equivalent of Pedobear.

Not to mention there is the original, "This is no Zaku, boy! No Zaku!" Explanation Yelled by Ramba Ral at Amuro, who had at first assumed Ral's Gouf was a specially painted Zaku like Char's

In Gundam SEED Destiny, Heine, piloting the GOUF Ignited, yelled at Stellar, "This is no ZAKU, pal. NO ZAKU!!" Explanation The Stellar vs. Heine duel in Phase 23 of GSD was a direct homage to the first Amuro vs. Ramba duel.

I'm the enemy you idiot!Explanation Gato lectures Kou as he's trying to run away with the GP-02. This causes Kou, whose still a rookie, to cry out "Sir! Yes, sir!" and Gato to utter out the line in annoyance.

You can't list every meme TV Tropes, not while your soul is still held down by gravity.Explanation A very common line in the UC, referring to people bound to Earth and unable to realize the superiority of Spacenoids.

Kamille Bidan is SICK OF ADULTS AND THEIR LIES! Explanation Kamille during one of his Angst sessions declares this.

KAMILLE'S A MAN'S NAME!AND I'M A MAN!!Explanation In the very first episode, Jerrid is introduced with the line "Kamille? I thought I heard a girl's name, but that's clearly a man." Cue Kamille going apeshit and punching Jerrid in the face. Keep in mind, at this point Jerrid is a complete stranger to Kamille, and is surrounded by other members of the Titans. Thus is the strange beginning of Kamille and Jerrid's bitter feud that results in them killing off each other's love interests more than once.

Norris Packard's "THATS RIGHT, COWER! BE AFRAID!" speech often gets put under a screen cap of a Mobile Suit pilot (or any Gundam character) with an Oh Crap! face, though the end of the speech is modified somewhat to fit the situation.

This Nu Gundam isn't just for show!Original "Nu Gundam wa date ja nai!"Explanation In the Dynasty Warriors: Gundam games, Amuro shouts this just before going to town on some mooks.Further explanation Amuro says this line in the original Japanese version when he begins to push back Axis with his Nu Gundam. Axis being an enormous asteroid, larger than the one that wiped out the dinosaurs, on a collision course with Earth.

This was changed in the English dub to "You're underestimating Nu Gundam!"

Kobe Byarlant. Explanation In Episode 4, the Byarlant Custom shows up from out of nowhere and blasts numerous enemies in mid-air, becoming a Memetic Badass.

Reconguista In G: Klim Nick toilet scene being nicknamed The Toilet Battle. Explanation Take from the scene where he relieves himself inside his mobile suit. For the record, all mobile suit cockpits in Reconguista have chairs that double as toilets.

This hand of mine is burning red! Its loud roar tells me to grasp victory! ERUPTING! BURNING! FINGER! And now... HEAT END! *kaboom* Explanation Domon's call for the upgraded version of his signature move.

"No. No machine-gun for him. Shoot him down!" from the dub's first episode. Followed immediately by the pilot trying to shoot Heero down with a machine-gun. The original Japanese dialogue was more along the lines of "There's no point firing a warning shot. Shoot him down."

Inappropriate Laughing Heero laughs at your misfortune.Explanation Heero's maniacal laughter from the first five episodes is frequently Photoshopped into various scenes of suffering or destruction.

Also crosses over with Quattro's "I came here to laugh at you" meme, when people kept adding more characters laughing alongside Heero.

Gundam Wing as a whole has a lot of parallels to The Dark Knight Rises, hence the memes of the latter crossing over with the former. Such as: "...or perhaps he's wondering why someone would shoot a man after throwing him out of a plane?"

After War Gundam X

"Tiffa! I believe in God!" Explanation In an early episode, Garrod's attempting to get the Gundam X to work. As he does, he utters that if he can get it to move, he'll start believing in God. He gets it to move and he goes on to tell Tiffa that line.

When a man strays from the right path, a kind man needs the courage to raise his fist and correct him.Explanation Jamil Neate's verbal formulation of the infamous "Bright Slap."

"I am selling this Gundam!" The question is: is that Garrod, or Bandai?

The Moonlight Butterfly. Your argument is invalid. Explanation A reference to how absurdly and apocalyptically destructive the Moonlight Butterfly is. In fact just mentioning the Turn A and/or Turn X in pretty much any Gundam "Who would win?" thread amounts to it winning by default. (As a result, most such discussions by veteran Gundam fans are prefaced by "The Turns are disqualified.")

Bow before your savior, Jesus Yamato. Explanation Detractors of Kira claim that the show portrays him as too morally perfect and good at everything he does, and mockingly refer to him as "Jesus Yamato".

I know we're supposed to be done listing Gundam memes... but at this moment, Cagalli is crying her heart out!Explanation Cagalli was known for crying throughout the first half of GSD, and Kira used that as an excuse on why he interferes in battles. Kira said that line in Phase 28 of GSD.

*Above thread gets Savioured* Explanation Referring to Kira's one-sided defeat of Athrun, piloting his Saviour, in the same episode.

Chairman Dullindal is Space Commie Naraku, and the Destiny Plan is space communism.

"Nicol was fifteen! He loved the piano!" Explanation Athrun's explanation to Cagalli on why he "killed" Kira in their last duel, after Nicol took Kira's attack and sacrificed himself to save Athrun. Also, Nicol, being an expy of Quatre from Wing, loves music, and is a talented piano player and composer. Occasionally rendered as "HE LOVED TOPLAY THE PIANO."

Subtitled version: "Nicol loved to play the piano. And he was only 15."

Kira swung first!Explanation People's response to the scene where Nicol runs onto the Strike Gundam's blade to his death in the HD Remaster version, unlike the original where Kira actually killed him in self-defense. It has gone to "HAN SHOT FIRST!" levels.

What is Jesus Yamato doing in Cross Ange?!note Tusk's near-accurate resemblance to Kira has caught fans' attention, accusing Fukuda of recycling characters from other series that he had a hand in. Came to head with his Unexplained Recovery in Episode 22, with added Twincest Squick, considering the basis for Ange's character design.

Setsuna F. Seiei would like you to know that he is Gundam.Explanation Setsuna has a habit of declaring himself "Gundam" or stating his intention to "become a Gundam". This is treated as just as bizarre in-universe as it sounds out of it.

Which leads to Hilarious in Hindsight because at the end of the movie, he DOES become Gundam - an Innovator/ELS hybrid, but close enough.

Damn you, Titeria! Explanation In all of Gundam history, Tieria is considered one of the best traps. Well, he is a Combat Innvade and according to All There in the Manual, all Combat Innvades has no specific gender.(Ribbons is also asexual.)

FUCKINGRIBBONS!!!Explanation Ribbons Almarck surprised everyone at the end of the first season, hijacking the plot and becoming the main villain out of absolutely nowhere, when he was previously assumed to be a bit character. Apparently, a thread on /m/ was filled almost entirely with people posting FUCKING RIBBONS! a few minutes after the episode aired.

Madoka Titus Explanation Someone posted a picture of the Age-1 Titus parts on a Kaname Madoka figure, which created a surge in fanart featuring the combination.

Homura Spallow

Desil is Nena's and Ali's child. Explanation The fans' explanation as to why Desil Galette is such a screwed-up Blood Knight. He does somewhat resemble Nena Trinity in looks.

Left: Loveless Marriage. Right: Happy Family.◊ Learn the difference, it can save your life. note The left side is a screen-cap of grown-up Emily and Flit from episode 15. The right side, however, is a fan-work from (very bitter) Flit/Yurin shippers that show a grown-up Yurin with a much happier (and mustache-less) Flit on the right.

See? Her hair is a bird. Your arguments are invalid.Explanation Among the rainbow of hair colors found in Gundam AGE is Mink Leiden's sky-blue hair. The fans played with this by editing the screen caps to show her hair flying away from the ship. Although given the way she parts her short hair, it does somewhat resemble the twitter bird...

Asemu is better than a Newtype, he's a Supah Pairotto!Explanation Asemu's total lack of Psychic Powers makes him almost unique among Gundam protagonists, and he's encouraged to become a "Super Pilot" by his mentor. The above bizarre spelling is what happens when the Japanese try to pronounce "Super Pilot."

His being a pirate leader in Generation 3 has mutated this into: Asemu Asuno, Super Pirate!

Kio is the Second Coming of Jesus Yamato! Explanation Kio takes up a pacifistic attitude much like Kira's near the end of AGE. Given Kira's nickname among the fans, the "Second Coming" jokes practically wrote themselves.

UC STRONK!Explanation The fact that mobile suits from the Universal Century tend to do better than Mobile Suits from other timelines. Not true in every case, but enough that the Western fandom took notice.

This week on the Meatbun Chronicles...Explanation Fan Nickname for the relationship between Reiji and Aila, due to their Meet Cute moment involving meatbuns. Expanded in Try to include Ship Tease between any two characters.

"Ameijin" being used as an adjective.note A pun based on Tatsuya's (aka Meijin Kawaguchi III) habit of piloting mobile suits nicknamed "Amazing", which in Japanese is pronounced identically to "a Meijin." That and an in-universe pun where one fan asks "Is the Kampfer Amazing because he's a Meijin?"

E-Sports Anime and Gundam E-Sportsnote Fans have noted how much the setup for the series about a supposed "children's" hobby turning into a serious competitive enterprise complete with large prizes, sponsorships and players playing simply to make a living.

Meijin Kawaguchi III, the real Gundam Jesusnote Meijin's ridiculously over-dramatic entrance to the battlefield, complete with a halo of light around him, a "saviour" pose, and flowers spontaneously blooming on the battlefield beneath him lead to many jokes about Meijin being Gundam Jesus. Unlike with Kira, the jokes are not at his expense.

MY DEATH ONLY PROVES MY EXISTANCE! Explanation G-Savior, the infamous western attempt at a live action Gundam series, makes a blink-and-you'll-miss-it appearance getting blown up during the tournament

"Gunpla is FREEDOM!" note The Meijin says this at one point during GBF Try. Especially popular among Gundam's modelling community.

"JEGAN, HOW'RE YOU!◊" note A mondegreen of Sekai's Jigen Haoh Ryu school of martial arts, which he always screams out when doing an attack.

"Beargguy Mother Fucker!" note A series of macros from4chan featuring Beargguy-San as foul mouth and trying to be funny, usually popping in at random.

Mobile Suit Gundam Iron-Blooded Orphans

QUALITYNote Episode 4 kinda dialed down on the animation quality on some characters, Mika and Atra falling victim to this in particular.

Space Ratnote The term "Space Rat" is used by Gjallarhorn officers, especially Gaelio, for describing how despicable and disposable the Tekkadan is.

Where did Chocolate Man touch you? Explanation When Fareed was dubbed Chocolate Man by Mika, combined with both the reveal that he is engaged to a nine year old and his offering of chocolate to Biscuit's little sisters, jokes started being made that he was a lolicon. Episode 13 only emphasized it further with his attempts at comforting Almiria (the girl in question) about her insecurities at being surrounded by older and more buxom women at a party appearing as outright seduction if taken out of context.

Flag RAISED Explanation A play on the OP, "Raise Your Flag" by Man With A Mission, showing the fans' enthusiasm for the show's Rated M for Manly status. Often accompanied by declarations of shirtlessness.

On a similar note: (Flag raising intensifies)

In connection with Episodes 12, 16, and 21 "Flags at Half-Mast..."SPOILER ENTRY Flying a flag at half-mast is customary for States whenever a leader or an important dignitary thereof dies. Used in full effect for this anime series when some named character in the series died in those episodes, particularly (in EXACT ORDER) Masahiro Atland (Akihiro's younger brother), Fumitan Admoss, and Biscuit Griffon.

When the second OP started with Kudelia merely looking at her hands before the wreckage of the Barbatos behind her was revealed, jokes were made about how she wasresponsible.Note It helps that they're going into a series of Wham Episodes, and her Character Development at the same time, both centered around the theme of "Responsibility".

Move over, Setsuna; Ein is now Gundam!Explanation In light of what happened to Ein (getting literally built into a Mobile Suit as part of his cyborgization), fans are now declaring that he has achieved what Setsuna could not: he is his Mobile Suit.

Waifu Destroyer.note Graze Ein defeated both Azee and Lafter in a rather gruesome way, whom they are Naze's wives. And he attempts to go after Kudelia, whom she's often paired with Mikazuki. And Norba Shino's got his own admirers out there.

Pay To Win player has logged on.note Referencing the hilariously overpowered nature of the Graze Ein, with enough weapons for about three normal mechs.

Masked Gaelionote Gaelio is speculated to be alive by many fans, and the Masked Gaelio theory is solidified in Pixiv.

Fucking McGillis.note References how he's such a bastard who played everyone like a fiddle to further his own goals, including sending a woman in love with him to her death and outright murdering his own best friend, two acts that are politically advantageous for his power grab.

One more... when the Japanese Agriculture Ministry caught two of its employees editing That Other Wiki'sGundam page on company time, they issued the statement that Gundam does not fall under the purview of the Japanese Agriculture Ministry.

In a recent episode, Soul Bro was asked if there were any Soul Bro's Women. He replied that the qualifications were different for women — he only likes men wimpy. He likes his women to be badass Action Girls, his favourite being Emma Sheen.

Other Gundamn! memes include "Gundam 00 Season 2 sucked!" (not what they really believe, but mocking the trolls who claimed this), "Gundam Unicorn does not exist" (refusing to report on it while it was still an unconfirmed rumor, which trolls exaggerated into them claiming this), and "Kill all the Vaygans!" (Chris agreeing with Flit's attitude towards Vaygan).

"Crushing hopes and dreams!" — since some of the fanbase tends to get... unrealistic expectations, they often feel it necessary to inject them with a sometimes-lethal dose of reality.

"Zaku test" is derogatory slang for a pentester tutorial program that takes a very basic understanding to crack.

Wow... although it is the page quote, there is no actual mention of the "IT'S A GUNDAM!" down here.

Subverted quite amusingly in Gundam 00, with everyone from mooks to major characters uttering the infamous phrase or variants of it, and usually surviving.

Never fall in love with a Gundam pilot, it will only end in disappointment (or an early funeral). Explanation The Gundam series' penchant at Kill 'em All endings of the main cast is infamous.

The "Cardboard Box Gundam", which came from an extremely cheap (and bold) cosplay. Not that memetic here, but Big in Japan.

Mutated further when 00 came out, in which after Setsuna's catch phrase, many a fan art appeared of him wearing a cardboard box over his regular attire, with the word "Gundam" scrawled on the front of the box.

A Chinese theme park's knockoff of the RX-78-2 is quickly gaining meme status after its "renovations." Lots of fan art◊ started popping up not 24 hours after the remodeled version was revealed, and even mock CGI. Nobody's sure what to call it yet, names range from "Sina Gundam" to "China Gundam" to "Sichuan Gundam." Chinese Gundam fans, who were the ones spreading the renovation first, already took the task of calling it Gunzafu but finally settled on Tianxian (Sky Fragrant) Gundam Unit 2 (presumably the one without upgrades is Unit 1).

When vaginas FLY! Explanation Wackymodder 84, a fan of Gundam who rants on the unoriginality of some Gundam SEED and SEED Destiny Mobile Suit designs, went into a 6-hour debate against the Church of Jesus Yamato and made a video to counter their arguments. When a cultist claims the Strike Freedom Gundam can destroy the Turn A Gundam, he says this phrase.

"OPPA GUNDAM STYLE!"Explanation K-pop sensation PSY's "Gangnam Style" really caught on with Gundam fans since "Gangnam" and "Gundam" sound almost identical when said out loud. Wearing a cardboard Gundam head is required for the dance.

AngryMike/Wavehawk, please make ______ Explanation From the Gundam Australia forum. Several times in succession a member called AngryMike (or Wavehawk on the animesuki forum) decided to make a custom model, only for Bandai to announce an official model kit of the mobile suit in question while or soon after he made it, much to his frustration. Naturally, members started requesting him to make models of suits they wanted to see Bandai make kits of.

Goomy looks like Haro.Explanation Due to striking resemblance, there are several memes comparing this gooey Dragon-type Pokémon in Pokémon X and Y to the cute mechanical mascot of Sunrise.

The Age of Onee-san Explanation In one of the interviews for Gundam Reconguista In G, Yoshiyuki Tomino said that he didn't like the recent trend of Cute Little Sisters in anime and wanted to make Cool Big Sis characters popular again. Reconguista's Aida Reyhunton is Tomino's contribution, while in Gundam Build Fighters Try, Sekai's Cool Big Sis Mirai has garnered a lot of attention from people on both sides of the fourth wall.

GodGrahamFINGAAAH!!Explanation The G Generation games let you mix-and-match mobile suits with pilots, and sometimes new voicework is done for specific combinations of suit/pilot. This is merely the most memetic of the combinations. Video here.

Robot King!Explanation A video of a fan singing a song about a bootleg Gundam ZZ toy he received to the tune of the original series opening. It has actually lead to a few fans seeking out this particular bootleg as a collector's item.

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